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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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I disagree with saying that talking about the issue here is pointless. For years, Bungie had the number one played game on XBL. In a short time, they wiil again have the number one played game. A bunch of people jabbering to Microsoft will not get anything accomplished, MS isn't the type of company to deal directly with the people from what I know. (Try getting permission to get some kind of copyright use permission - just don't wait for them to reply.) But we are able to influence Bungie with our comments, and Bungie has weight with Microsoft when it comes to games. We don't have 2 month trials anymore, and I would be suprised if that wasn't due to Bungie's complaining to MS that the trials were making cheating impossible to stop. So yes, I think that talking here could make a diffence. And at the very least, it can't hurt.
Posted by: LKiller1310a
I just had a conversation with another gamer on this and here, specifically, is what I'm asking for:
1. A specifically dedicated email address, similar to the halo2 cheats address, dedicated to racist violations of the XBL code of conduct. For example: racismhotline@xboxlive.com.
Sounds like a good idea to me. If they think it works for cheating, I don't see why it wouldn't help racism.
2. A significantly more rigorous -blam-like filter for preventing the creation of racist tags in the first place.
Not a bad idea, but in the long run, I don't think it's much of a solution. There will always be new ways to say bad words, so stopping them will be impossible. A good first line of defense, but nothing to rely on.
3. The removal of all history from Bungie.net /XBoxlive.com of past stats for gamers with racist tags. New gamer tags that are banned would also immediately have their stats removed, providing transparency as to XBL enforcement (if the stats are no longer there, it will be apparent that the gamer has been dealt with). Searches for removed gamer tags would return a result like "Gamer stats have been purged due to violation of the XBox Live code of conduct."
I agree. It should be faily easy to do - if a tag was banned for racism, make the stats unavailable to the public.
4. The elimination from Halo 2 of the combination of graphic effects that have consistently been used to create racist graphics (hoods). New permutations could be submitted to the racism email alias for continued review by Bungie and MS.
No reason not to try. if the combinations are well known, they could be but on a list of some kind. However, I'm not sure that Bungie has the ability in place to automatically decline specific combinations. It may be easier and more effective to simply ask players to report players who use the emblems.
5. Acknowledgement from MS that they are continuing to take this issue seriously, and will continue to take additional measures as ongoing issues related to racism develop.
At this point, I think you should hope for an official statement from Bungie that they are taking it seriously, and are working with microsoft to help the problem. It could be mentioned in a weekly update, like the cheating announcements are.